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The recently released Insider Search page on Securities Mosaic is our most ambitious release in years

Last weekend, we released a completely revamped version of our search page for Insider Filings — EDGAR Forms 3, 4, and 5. These filings, ubiquitous yet revelatory, are where company bigwigs and fat cats (a.k.a. Executives, Directors, and significant Beneficial Owners) publicly disclose their trading on the securities of that company. The new, state-of-the-art tool — a collaboration between Lexis Securities Mosaic and Intelligize — offers a dozen new search filters along with major functionality enhancements. It’s our most ambitious release in several years.

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You can get more specific details in our last blog post, but here is a summary of the high-level capabilities offered by the new search page. Use it to:

Track significant insider buying and selling and analyze trends, based on the criteria you specify

Identify, value, and benchmark equity compensation in the form of grants and options

Find similar transactions to locate precedent language or model disclosure to guide your own Form 4 disclosure

Identify the major stakeholders in a company or industry, either currently or historically

And who exactly might benefit from such capabilities? The answer is as diverse as the disclosure itself, and includes: